Is My Bird Gay? Informatn About Homosexual Birds And Parrots

Contents:

• IS MY BIRD GAY? INFORMATN ABOUT HOMOSEXUAL BIRDS AND PARROTS
• GAY BIRD
• WHY IT'S OK FOR BIRDS TO BE GAY
• CAN BIRDS BE GAY? DO BIRDS SHOW HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVR?

IS MY BIRD GAY? INFORMATN ABOUT HOMOSEXUAL BIRDS AND PARROTS

Sopoulos-Lloyd’s experience is echoed by many people who intify as LGBTQ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, or queer), and who have lived much of their liv feelg “othered” by a society that centers people who are whe, straight, and cisgenr (their assigned sex at birth match their genr inty).

GAY BIRD

“Birdg trips wh straight men have been very difficult, ” says Chase Mennhall, a cisgenr gay man and curator of birds at the Carnegie Mm of Natural History. In 1994, the Gay Birrs’ Club was found the UK, and a year later, a siar group, lled GAGGLE, was tablished Atlanta, Geia. Around that time, Jennifer Rycenga, who’s now a profsor of relig studi at San Jose State Universy, was searchg for a gay-leang birdg group San Francis.

WHY IT'S OK FOR BIRDS TO BE GAY

Today, some two s after the first gay-birdg groups formed, outdoor spac are signifintly more diverse, acceptg, and safe. “I’m black, gay, and non-Christian, ” says Chris Cooper, a board member for NYC Audubon.

CAN BIRDS BE GAY? DO BIRDS SHOW HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVR?

We might thk that homosexualy do not exist birds or parrots. Sce a major drive the animal kgdom is to reproduce, and bee homosexualy do not serve this functn, we may assume that there is no place for same-sex relatnships.

In fact, many speci of birds engage homosexual behavr. There are some speci where homosexual activy occurs between eher of the sex. Don’t believe gay birds are possible?

The evince of homosexual behavr birds and other animals has been ntroversial certa nservative quarters where a moral argument agast human homosexualy is prevalent. Rearch bias related to the beliefs may be the reason that only sce the 1990s has homosexualy birds has been officially observed on a large sle.